Mississippi is yours for the tasting

3:41 PM,
Jan. 25, 2014

Written by

Robert St. John
American Correspondent

A few weeks ago a national publication asked me to write a 500-word piece describing "Mississippi food." It was hard. For someone like me, who loves my home state and the cuisine of my state, it was almost impossible.

That's a lot of ground to cover in a small allocation of verbiage. I edited myself down to 642 words, but I still didn't cover everything I needed to say about the food of our state. Today I've added to those 642 words. Allow me to preach to the choir for a moment: